Posted by Kurt Cylke on March 15, 2001 at 18:17:35 from 140.147.40.84:
"The Sword and the Shield" , a history of the KGB by Andrew and Mitrokhin hold the following sentences that may be of interest: "... A least until Lenin was incapacitated by his third stroke in March l923, he continued to take an active, though sometimes illinformed, interest in INO reports. He noted, for example, that somewhat inaccurate information received in 1922 from one of Cheka's few early British sources, the journalist Arthur Ransome (later famous as a children's novelist), was "very important and, probably, fundamentally true. "